Dying terrorist making “remarkable recovery”

posted at 3:35 pm on April 2, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

The Scots government ordered the release of Lockerbie terrorist Abdel Baset al-Megrahi after concluding that he only had weeks to live. This week, he got one more birthday party than the 269 people he murdered in the bombing of Pan Am 103 in December 1988. Megrahi apparently also celebrated a surprising return to good health:

The Lockerbie bomber celebrated his 58th birthday on Thursday at a Libyan mansion, defying the imminent death Scottish officials predicted when they compassionately freed him from prison nearly eight months ago.

The thought of Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi partying with family and friends – reportedly thanking God for his survival – left his victims’ loved ones sick to their stomachs.

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Never send a terrorist to prison, where he can be released on the whim of the next political regime. The only good terrorist is a dead one. Given the level of BS that is going on and the pressure being put on our intelligence community it must be soooo tempting just to “triple s” these bastards when they are caught.

Has anyone heard about this? This, if true, is disturbing. If true, it shows some very severe editing by Okeefe and crew. I really hope they didnt do what it appears they did. That doesnt help our cause.

Some of the things said to be edited out are Giles saying she is being abused and trying to find a safe place for the El Salvador girls.

This is the problem with life penalties. As soon as they get old or sick, then the sympathy sets in.

I saw a show a few years back about the “old sorry poor needy aging” lifers in prison. The whole tone of the show was “these poor old people walking around with walkers and canes in our prisons. How can we allow this?”

A true and tragic injustice has been served here, if ever there was one offered on a silver platter like this before.

I wonder how the laypersons of Scotland feel about what their political caste has done with mass murderer al-Megrahi in cahoots with Libya and the UK. I can’t say that I’ve seen/read a peep about how totally ashamed they are of their government.

This is why the death penalty for murder should be swiftly and promply administered. Now because of the greed of the British government, the victim’s families are being victimized all over again, over twenty years after the Lybian terrorist attack.

Well, at least those oil contracts between Libya and the UK are on the mend. Because, as we discovered, that’s all that was really important to the British and Scots governments.

And after all these years of us “Yanks” getting criticized for our seemingly protective domestic market policies by these same UK-er’s, eh? Makes “made in America” a little bit more attractive for me as a consumer these days.

Well, at least those oil contracts between Libya and the UK are on the mend. Because, as we discovered, that’s all that was really important to the British and Scots governments.

That is the way the world goes Ed. It is the same reason that the Saudis were allowed to escape responsibility for 911 and then blame it on some anti Saudi/Islam fringe of disaffected grievance ridden ghosts.

Just a reminder of why this turd is alive and free: BP needed Libyan Oil – Libya wanted turd released. I have not been able to buy gas from a BP station since. It sickens me that this turd is free because of BP’s greed.

I had an uncle who came home from World War I and had six months to live. They offered him 100% disability and all kinds of gov’t drugs and care. After sitting around for some time drinking and feeling sorry for himself, his wife threatened to leave and people were mostly sick of him. (Reminds me of a Josef Conrad book with the N word in the title. I wonder what they call it today.) So he went back to work, got a license to drive then a contractor’s license. He also went to the best Docs and dumped the VA.